八年级上任务型阅读及答案.doc

八年级英语上专项训练（任务型阅读）
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In America, boys and girls like watching TV. Some children spend six hours a day at school and four to six hours a day in front of the TV sets. Some children even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturday.
Television is like books and films. A child can learn both good things and bad things from it. (1)Some TV programs help children to understand the news, the people and places in other countries. With TV, children do not have to go to the movies. They can listen to interesting music or watch a game at home. (2)But some programs are bad for children, so parents sometimes should help them to find other interesting and useful things to do.
1. How many hours a day do some children at school?___________________
2. How many hours a day do some children watch TV on Saturday?________
3. 将（1）句译成汉语___________________________________________.
4. 将（2）句译成汉语___________________________________________.
5. The parents had better not let their children watch ________on TV.
A. good programs B. bad programs C. news D. weather report
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(This is an interview to a teenager.)
Interviewer: Thanks for coming in for the interview, Susan.
Susan: That’s ok.
Interviewer: ok, how often do you exercise?
Susan: Every day.
Interviewer: How often do you eat vegetables and fruit?
Susan: I eat vegetables ten or eleven times a week, and I eat fruit every day.
Interviewer: All right! So how many hours do you sleep every night?
Susan: Nine. I need lots of sleep.
Interviewer: How often do you drink milk?
Susan: Never. I can’t stand milk. It’s awful.
Interviewer: What about junk food?
Susan: Yeah, I love it. I guess I eat once or twice a week.
Interviewer: Well, thank you very much.
Susan: You’re welcome.
根据对话内容及首字母提示完成短文。（注意每格词数不等）
Susan is pretty healthy. She e_________ every day, and her eating h________ are pretty good. She eats fruit every day and vegetables t__________ a week. Of c_________ she loves j________ food, too, but she tries to eat only o_________ a week. And she s_________ nine hours every night. So you see, she looks a__________ her health well. And it makes a big d__________ to her grades. Good food and exercise h___________ her to study better.
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你的好朋友要去英国，他想了解在英国如何去看病，读下面的短文，比较两国的差异。
There is a National Health Service in Britain. People usually call it “the NHS”. When people are ill, they can get free treatment （治疗）. ① The government pays for the treatment. In Britain everyone has a local doctor. The local doctor is a general practitioner (全科医生)(GP). A GP is a doctor who treats patients with all kinds of illness. He may not have specialists (专家) usually work in hospitals.
If a man is ill and wants to see his doctor, he calls to make an appointment first. If he is too ill and he can’t go out, his doctor will come to his house. If the patient has to take medicine, the doctor gives him a prescription(处方). ② The patient has to pay some money for the prescription. He goes to the chemist’s shop and buys the medicine there. The price is the same as any kind of medicine. ③But children, students, old people or people without work don’t have to pay for their medicine.
任务一：从文中找出下列各词：medical ___________(名词); different _________(反义词)
任务二：把文中画线①改为一般疑问句。
_______ the government _______ for the treatment?
任务三：把文中画线②③处译成汉语。
②________________________________________________________________
③________________________________________________________________
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Holidays in the United States usually happen at least once a month. Most months have a national(国家的) holiday on Mondays. Then the workers may have 3-day weekends, that is, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On these days people can rest or go to interesting places or do things with their families. Greater holidays in the United States are New Year’s Day, Chrisman Day and Thanksgiving Day. ①In these holidays most businesses (工商企业) close and the workers stay at home and celebrate with their families.
Holidays can be from 2 weeks a year. ② This usually depends on (取决于) how long you’ve been working for a place, or what kind of work you do. Usually the more time you spend working for a place, the more time you may get for a holiday.
任务一：写出美国三个重要节日的汉语名字：
New Year’s Day___________;
Christmas Day______________;
Thanksgiving Day____________
任务二：将划线部分译成汉语：
①________________________________________________________________.
②________________________________________________________________
任务三：下列解释是那个单词，从文中找出。
① Saturday and Monday_______________________
② The second day of the week_____________________
③ Vacation______________________________
任务四：判断正误，正确写T，错的写F。
① Holidays in the USA usually happen at least once a week.
② The more time you spend working for a place, the more time you may get for a holiday.
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A
Tom is from London. He’s now in Beijing with his parents. His father and mother teach in a school. He studies in a middle school. The school is four miles from his home. He usually walks to school. He says, “It takes a bus. He’s never late, and he’s always the first one to get school. He’s good at all his subjects, and he often helps us with our English. We all love him very much.
B
①In America there is a new sport called “Earthball”. This kind of ball is very big. It was thought by Stuart Frand. He was once a hippy (嬉皮士). The idea of the game is to keep the ball in the air for as long as possible. As the ball is very big, logs of people love to play. ②There are no winners or losers in the game. The idea is simply to enjoy yourself as much as you can. Earthball is just of the games in a “New Games Festival”. The festival took place in the country near San Francisco, USA. Perhaps other countries can follow the example of American people and have festivals to test new games. It sounds like a good idea.
任务一：根据A篇，填写句中所缺的单词。
① Tom is _________, not Chinese.
② His _________ are both teachers.
③ He usually goes to school on _________.
④ He sometimes goes to school _________bus.
⑤ He does __________ in all his subjects.
任务二：句型转换。
① 画线①的反意疑问句部分是：_______ ________?
② 画线②的同义句是：There ________ any winners ________ losers in the game.
任务三：下列解释是哪个单词或短语，从文中一一找出。
① sometimes _______________
② happened _________________
③ have a good time______________
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Toto was a baby elephant. Her trunk was only one meter long. When she heard her father making a noise, Toto raised her trunk, too. The only noise that she could make was very little, like a toy whistle(哨声).
①Toto saw her mother pulling leaves from the top of a tree to eat them. She tried to reach the lowest ② branch, but she couldn’t. So her father and mother had to help her to break the branch and it fell down to the ground. Toto was happy that she could eat the leaves.
As it was a hot day, flies (苍蝇) sat in the corners of her eyes. She saw her mother pulling some grass with her trunk to drive off the flies.
③Toto 发觉这一点后不难。When the elephant walked to a river, her father would help her have a bath, He put the water in his trunk and poured it onto Toto’s back. She was very happy and cool.
根据短文内容回答下列各题：
① How long is the baby elephant’s trunk?________________________________
② 将①译成汉语：_________________________________________________
③ 猜测②的词义：_____________________________
④ 将③译成英语：_________________________________________________
⑤ How did the father help the baby elephant to have a bath?
________________________________________________________________.
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Sam lives in the USA. His father has a shop there. His mother is a doctor and she works in a hospital. He’s seven years old now and begins to go to school this autumn. It’s a little far from school and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he’s never late for class and his teachers like him.
It’s Monday today. Miss Hunt is teaching him to count from one to ten. Sam is studying hard. Soon he can count them. Miss Hunt is happy and asks, “How many people are there in your family, Sam?”
Sam stands up and says,” Two, Miss Hunt.”
“Who are they?” “MY father and my mother.”
“Oh?” Miss Hunt is surprised. She says, “There are three people in your family.”
“But now I’m not at home. I am at school, you know!”
根据短文内容回答下列问题：
① Who is Sam? He is a ______ boy. He lives in the ________.
② What do Sam’s parents do? His father ________ in a shop and his mother is a _______.
③ How does Sam go to school every day?　 He _________ his father’s __________.
④ What is Sam going to learn on Monday? He is ________ to count the ______ from one to ten.
⑤ Is Sam’s answer right? _________, he ________. In fact (事实上), there are three people in his family.
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Captain Goodfellow
Do your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games, and exciting dances? Captain Goodfellow will be ready to teach all these things to children at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:00, free.
Films at the Museum
Two European (欧洲的) films will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre. See Broken Window at 1:30 pm. The workers will be at 3:45 pm. For further information, call 498-7898.
International Picnic
Are you tired of eating the same food every day? Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food from all over the world. Delicious but not expensive. Noon to 5:00 pm.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
It’s October, and Saturday night (7:00—9:00) is your last chance (机会) to see the Red Birds this year. Get your tickets at the gate. It might be cold. Don’t forget sweater, and jackets.
Do You Want to Hear “The Zoo”?
“The Zoo”, a popular rock group from Australia, will give their first US concert this Saturday night, at 8 o’clock at Rose Hall, City College.
根据短文内容回答下列各题：
① Where can your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games and exciting dances?
__________________________________________________________________
② When can you see the Red Birds this year?
__________________________________________________________________
③ What can you eat in the Central Park?
___________________________________________________________________
④ What does “The Zoo” mean?
___________________________________________________________________
⑤ Mr Turner can both listen to a concert and watch a ball game on Saturday, can’t he?
___________________________________________________________________
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先阅读短文，然后把方框中的句子填入问中空格内：
December 23, 2005
Dear Rose,
How are you?
I like your programs every much. They’re very interesting and ____1____. I like traveling and I have won a free four-week trip to England, but I know little about the British way of life. Would you please write to tell me something about the British meals?
Thank you.
Yours,
Wang Lin

January 1st, 2006
Dear Wang Lin,
It’s very helpful to know something about the British meals before traveling. In many English houses, ____2____. They are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
Breakfast takes place at any time from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning. They usually have eggs, bread with butter, cheese and so on. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast. ___3___. It can be a hamburger or a three-course （三道菜）meal. Afternoon tea is between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Dinner begins at about half past seven. The first course is soup. ____4____.
Then come fruits of different kinds: apples, pears, bananas and so on. But not all English people eat like that. ______5______.
Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. And all these meals are usually simple.
Wish you a good time in England!
Yours,
Rose
A. The next is often meat or fish with vegetables
B. People eat four meals a day
C. I can learn a lot from them
D. Lunch comes at one o’clock
E. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day

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I love traveling in the country, but I don’t like losing my way. I went on an excursion (短途旅行) recently, but my trip took me longer than I expected.
“I’m going to Woodford Green,” I said to the conductor as I got on the bus, “but I don’t know where it is.”
“I’ll tell you where to get off,” answered the conductor.
I sat in the front of the bus to get a good view of the countryside. After some time, the bus stopped. Looking around, I realized (意识到) with a shock that I was the only passenger left on the bus.
“You have to get off here,” the conductor said, “This is as far as we go.”
“Is this Woodford Green?” I asked
“Oh, dear,” said the conductor suddenly. “I forgot to put you off.”
“It doesn’t matter,” I said, “I’ll get off here.”
“We are going back now,” said the conductor.
“Well, in that case, I prefer to stay on the bus.” I answered.
根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F):
1. The man likes to travel in the city.
2. The man’s trip took him shorter than he expected.
3. The man wanted to go to London.
4. The man sat in the front of the bus to get a good view of the countryside.
5. At last the man stayed on the bus.
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When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good at it and made his plane do ①all kinds of tricks.
George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, “I’ve traveled in a big plane several times, but I’ve never been in a small one. So I’ll do.”
They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air.
When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ② safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking （颤抖的）voice, “Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.”
George was very surprised and said, “Two trips?”
“Yes, my first and my last,” answered Mark.
根据短文内容完成下列各题。
1. The best title of the passage should be __________.
2. How long was Mark’s trip in the small plane?
3. 把划线的句子译成汉语：____________________________________________
4. 写出②的形容词形式：___________________
5. 写出①的同义词组：___________________________
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In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his pictures you could see everything very clearly, even the smaller things. This kind of photo was called a Daguerretpye.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them. For example, some in the United States worked so hard.
Mathew Brady was a famous